Steve Groth, baritone, is a classical vocalist, teacher, and collaborative pianist currently residing in the metro-Milwaukee area. Recent performances with the Italian Montefeltro Festival include Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, and Taddeo in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algieri.  Recent American operatic credits include Toccato in Offenbach’s The Electro-Magnetic Voice Lesson, the Stranger in Keith Gates’ Christmas Coin, Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola, the King in Montsalvage's Puss in Boots and Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, with Boulder Opera.  Steve, well-versed in performing new and seldom-performed compositions, has recently revived works for baritone and small chamber ensembles by Gregoria Karides Suchy and he has worked with the University of Colorado's Composer Fellows' Initiative; helping student composers learn to write operatic literature and then performing these works' premieres.

Equally at home on the concert stage, Steve has recently sung the baritone solo in Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Montefeltro Festival Singers under the direction of Maestro Joe Rescigno.  Other oratorio soloist credits include Carmina Burana with SUNY Geneseo with Gerard Floriano and covering the Verdi Requiem at the University of Missouri-Columbia with Paul Crabb.

In recent competitions, Steve has been a semi-finalist in the SAS Vocal Competition (2023 and 2024) and a semi-finalist in the Jenson Competitions (2023).  He received the Kenneth King second prize award in the Denver Lyric Opera Guild competition in 2021 and took the William Vennard Award in the national NATSAA competition in 2020.